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Catching Waves With A Camera In 'Legends Of The Sandbar'

WUNC News | By Anita Rao,
Charlie Shelton
Published July 27, 2017 at 12:14 PM EDT

Photographer Chris Bickford has traveled the world and soaked in different landscapes and cultures, but there is a special kind of serenity he only finds at the North Carolina shore. For more than a decade, Bickford has lived in the Outer Banks taking pictures of the region's shifting sands and close-knit surfing community. He's gathered a collection of black and white photographs in a new book called “Legends of the Sandbar” (Burn Magazine/2017). 

A conversation with photographer and surfer Chris Bickford.Guest host Anita Rao talks with Bickford about his experiences taking pictures of the eclectic coastal culture in the Outer Banks.

Seagulls sprinkle the beach on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009
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Chris Bickford
Seagulls sprinkle the beach on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009
A picture at Jockey's Ridge a day after Hurricane Matthew in 2016
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Chris Bickford
A picture at Jockey's Ridge a day after Hurricane Matthew in 2016

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Charlie Shelton